Tetela

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The Tetela (also Batetela, Otetela, Sungu ) are an ethnic group from the Kasaï-Oriental province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo . They speak Lomongo . They traditionally live from fishing and growing manioc , bananas and cola nuts . From 1800 they came under Arab influence. From the 1860s to the 1890s, the Tetela were ruled by Tippu-Tip , after which the area fell to the Congo Free State .

The Tetela provided some of the soldiers for the Force Publique . On July 4, 1895 , the troops, many of them Tetela, mutinied in Kananga because of poor food and outstanding wages . The insurgents were defeated the following year. On February 14, 1897, the Tetala mutinied, led by Francis Dhanis in a campaign to the Lado enclave . The insurgents killed several white officers and then defeated several regular battalions of the Force Publique. Their successes led to numerous deserters in the ranks of the Force Publique. It was not until 1901 that the Congo Free State had the situation under control.

A part of the Tetela, the Kusu, took up the Arab culture. At the beginning of the 20th century, the Belgian administration in the Belgian Congo relocated the Kusu to the Kivu Province and Tetela to the Kasaï Province .

The most famous Tetela is Patrice Lumumba , the first Prime Minister of the independent Congo.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Library of Congress Subject Headings , Volume V, 25th Edition, Library of Congress , 2002, p. 6309 [1]
  2. ↑ James Stuart Olson: The Peoples of Africa: An Ethnohistorical Dictionary , Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, ISBN 978-0-313-27918-8 , p. 555 [2]
  3. ↑ Mohamad Yakan (Ed.): Almanac of African Peoples and Nations , Transaction Publishers, 1999 ISBN 978-1-351-28930-6 p. 645 [3]
  4. ^ Emizet Francois Kisangani, Scott F. Bobb: Historical Dictionary of the Democratic Republic of the Congo , Edition 3, Verlag Scarecrow Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-8108-6325-5 , pp. 379-380 [4]
  5. ↑ James Stuart Olson: The Peoples of Africa: An Ethnohistorical Dictionary , Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, ISBN 978-0-313-27918-8 , p. 317 [5]
  6. ↑ James Stuart Olson: The Peoples of Africa: An Ethnohistorical Dictionary , Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, ISBN 978-0-313-27918-8 , p. 555 [6]